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clrmamepro [English] => clrmame Discussion => Topic started by: jfromeo on 21 November 2009, 13:07

Title: Merging a Fullset with a Parent-Clone dat. Scan? Merger? Rebuilder?
Post by: jfromeo on 21 November 2009, 13:07

Hi roman and fellas.

I have a question about merging a set.

I have an original No-Intro fullset/zipped/torrentzipped of, say, Commodore - Amiga (20090626) with its correspondant dat (Commodore - Amiga (20090626).dat) and P/C xml (Commodore - Amiga Parent-Clone (20090626).dat), both downloaded from the official http://no-intro.org site.

I would like to merge/7z the full set using clrmamepro. Previously I perform a full Scan+Fix of Roms and Sets with the regular dat, resulting 0 missing/0 fixes. Ok, then I load the Parent-Clone dat into the profiler, default, rebuilder-->source (Commodore Amiga full/zip folder) -->destination (Comodore Amiga merged/7z folder), merge options-->merge sets, compress sets-->7z, rebuild.

It takes a little time to perform it, but the rebuilt set isn't merged at all, although it's 7zipped. The rebuilt set has exactly the same number of files than the source one (although it has been built with the parent-clone dat), the space gain is achieved from being 7zipped instead of zipped, but it's not merged.

I just checked it again by using zip as the compressor in the rebuilding proccess and comparing the two folders (original-->fullset, rebuilt-->merged) and they are exactly the same size.

Is it possible to merge sets with clrmamepro? Or do I have to use GoodMerge? Do I have to check another option?

Title: Re: Merging a Fullset with a Parent-Clone dat. Scan? Merger? Rebuilder?
Post by: Roman on 21 November 2009, 17:15

Well...merging is possible (actually with scanner, rebuilder and merger)....but of course the used datfile has to support it. The datfile defines parent/clone relationsships. So first look for you would be the datfile...if it doesn't hold any parent/clone relationship tags ("cloneof"), then you simply can't merge sets.
If the datfile is organized in a way that merging is possible, you can simply change the scanner's merge mode and scan/fix to get the set merged.....by the way, the scanner's merge mode is a good thing to look at...if split or full merged is greyed out, the datfile doesn't have any parent/clone relationships defined.

Title: Re: Merging a Fullset with a Parent-Clone dat. Scan? Merger? Rebuilder?
Post by: jfromeo on 22 November 2009, 05:16

Thanks Roman.

I was using the wrong dat :P

Title: Re: Merging a Fullset with a Parent-Clone dat. Scan? Merger? Rebuilder?
Post by: Roman on 27 November 2009, 14:08

thought so :O)